1. Immigration, Industry & Innovation
The North
Immigration, Industry & Innovation

2. Immigrants
Standard 8.47

4. Irish Immigrants -immigrants are very poor
-they do the jobs no one else wants
-lived mostly in city slums

5. Irish have difficulty getting jobs.
Many native born Americans fear the immigrants will take their jobs

6. Built the railroads

7. Built the Erie Canal

9. Irish Flee the Potato Famine

10. Video Clip: Flight from Famine

13. German Immigrants -Flee Germany after a failed revolution
-Many working class
looking for job
opportunities

16. Nativists—only like people from America
Know-Nothing Party
Anti-Catholic
Anti-immigrant
Nativists—only like people from America

17. Know-Nothing Party -wanted to extend time to become a citizen
-to prevent foreign-born people from
ever holding public office.

19. Growth, Cities, & Immigration
Video Clip
Growth, Cities, & Immigration

20. Industrial Revolution
Standard 8.73

21. Industrial Revolution
Began in Great Britain
Began building Textile Mills (made cloth)
Water Frame-created by Richard Arkwright- produced stronger, thinner cotton thread
Powered the spinning jenny by flowing water

25. Video Clip
Mill Sounds

26. Industrial Revolution
Samuel Slater smuggles mill plans out of Great Britain
Built a mill in Rhode Island
Mills spring up all over New England

28. Video Clip
Samuel Slater

29. Industrial Revolution
Most mills were located in the New England region.
Built next to rivers and streams

30. Mill Life Hired entire families Built housing for families
Company store
Started paying with credit to the store

36. Lowell System Created by Francis Cabot Lowell
Used water-powered textile mills
Everything done at one location: loom that spun the thread AND weaved the cloth

38. Lowell System
Textile mills that employed young, unmarried girls--- ”Lowell Girls”
They lived at the factory and had to follow strict rules.

44. Video Clip
Lowell Mills

45. Workers Organize Workers demand better working conditions and pay
Organize trade unions
Unions organize strikes

46. Sarah G. Bagley
Founder of Lowell Female Labor Reform Association

47. Newsies vs. Lowell Girls
Video Clip
Newsies vs. Lowell Girls

48. Innovation
Standard 8.73

49. Eli Whitney Interchangeable Parts: identical machine parts
Easier to assemble
Easier to fix and replace

50. Robert Fulton Made the first steamboat named Clermont
Allowed for faster boat travel on rivers

51. Peter Cooper
Built the 1st steam locomotive named Tom Thumb

52. Railroad
By 1860, 30,000 miles of track and every major U.S. city linked

54. Samuel F. B. Morse Invented the telegraph Developed Morse code
Series of dashes and dots representing the alphabet

57. John Deere
Designed a steel tip plow
Allows soil to be easily plowed

58. Cyrus McCormick
Invented a harvesting machine to effectively cut down wheat
Called the mechanical reaper or grain reaper

60. Elias Howe
Invented the sewing machine

61. Isaac Singer Made improvements on Howe’s design
By 1860, largest maker of sewing machines

62. Video Clip